ProSteroids have become the most
popular muscle building products to date. Easily available
over
the counter and without any of the side effects that the old school
steroids were known for. Users of ProSteroids seem to be
getting bigger, leaner while remaining healthier that the steroid
users of the past. This article will explain how and why, as
well as tell you where you an get your hands on these amazing
products!

For
the prohormone enthusiast, it’s
unfortunate that the days of intense
anabolic steroid research are over...they occurred between the
1930’s and 1990-ish. At that earlier point,
testosterone
had been isolated for quite some time, and the pharmaceutical industry
trended towards synthesizing anabolic steroids to treat a variety of
diseases and conditions. And, pinpointing the collapse of the Berlin
Wall in 1990, we find that a wealth of doping information had been
collected until that point by East German scientists and doctors who
had been working on the state sponsored sports doping program. Of
course much of these earlier strides laid the groundwork for the more
common bodybuilding applications we see them used for today. And in
fact, we most of the designer steroids we’ve seen (THG, etc...) and
prohormones have been based on research that was already decades old.

If
you’re considering steroid use or prohormone use, or are simply new to
the steroid world, consider this a crash course; if you’re already an
old hand at steroid use, consider this a refresher course; because for
over two decades, with few exceptions, we’ve been in a relative drought
for cutting-edge studies. It goes without saying that any steroid or
prohormone cycle ought to be accompanied by something to support your
health and something like HCGenerate to support a speedy return to
normal hormone levels. N2 Guard is actually considered a
“must have”
supplement among health-conscious prohormone fans, for helping to keep
them healthy while on a cycle.

During the early days of steroid
research, thousands of different anabolic steroids were described by
the pharmaceutical industry, in a seemingly endless attempt to
formulate the Holy Grail – a completely side-effect free steroid, with
ideal anabolic and androgenic properties. But very few of steroids ever
made it through the testing phase and even fewer moved on to be
patented.

That’s why, every so often, we see some new steroid
showing up as an undetectable compound being used in doping circles, or
on the nutritional market. The former arises from the inevitable demand
athletes place on themselves to be the best in their given sport, while
the latter comes from the written law in the United States of
America, that essentially make it legal to sell certain prohormones as
dietary supplements (given that certain provisos are met). In many
cases, specific prohormones have later been made illegal by new
legislation (on the chopping block right now is the powerful
side-effect free hormones – like
Beastdrol - so stock up!). And
again, we’re not talking about new
research here, we’re talking about very old research being recycled and
repackaged.

Between 75 and 100 different steroids have washed up
on the shores of the American dietary market, between the first Andro
(4-Androstene-3,17-dione) bottle that appeared in Mark McGwire’s
locker, to the more recent products like Helladrol, Dieselbolan, and
Katanadrol.

There are three basic families of anabolic steroids,
most of which will be familiar, or at least partially familiar, to the
average steroid user.

Testosterone is, of course, the first
anabolic steroid synthesized. It’s been rightly characterized as the
gold standard for all anabolics, and is in fact the one against which
all others are measured in terms of potency. Testosterone is the most
important naturally occurring steroid. In men it is synthesized in the
testes at the rate of roughly 4-10 milligrams per day, while another
0.5 mg per day comes from the adrenal coortex. Helladrol is a great
example of a testosterone-based prohormone, but with an added 4-chloro
attachment that prevents it from converting to estrogen.

You
see, testosterone is naturally reduced to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and
oxidized to estradiol. We see this conversion to DHT in tissues such as
the scalp, while oxidation takes place in adipose (fat) and other
tissue.

Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone together are
responsible for the typically male sex characteristics, but their
function is different. In the adolescence testosterone induces the sex
drive in men, enlargement of the penis, the production of sperm,
increase of muscle mass and lowering of the voice, the so called
anabolic effects.

While testosterone is responsible for the
primary sexual maturation of males, Dihydrotestosterone is responsible
for what we generally call secondary sexual effects during puberty,
i.e. an increase in body and facial hair, acne, and a deepening of the
voice. These effects
are termed androgenic. Indeed, Dihydrotestosterone
forms its own family of anabolic steroids, including Anadrol,
Primobolan, Anavar, Masteron, Beastdrol, and more. With the
exception
of the ‘drols, these steroids are generally used on cutting cycles.
Beastdrol is an example of an incredibly popular and effective
DHT-based prohormone (and while it’s still currently legal, that may
change in the future). Katanadrol is also in this same
family, and is a
very potent prohormone used for cutting cycles.

D-Aspartic Acid is a very popular testosterone booster used after
prohormone cycles.

Testosterone
in the methylated form, as well as its esters, have been on the market
for a very long time as anabolic preparations. Because it’s orally
inactive in its natural form, it’s necessary to methylate it (as in
methyltestosterone) or inject it. Methylated, it acts very quickly, as
it does when injected, unless an ester is attached. After injecting a
testosterone ester, a slowed release to the blood takes place, the
length of which depends on the length of the attached ester. With this
simple chemical alteration, we can inject once a week, instead of
daily. Testosterons and its derivatives are the most versatile of
anabolic steroids, seen in both bulking cycles, and they include
Testosterone Cypionate (and Enanthate, Propionate, etc...), Dianabol,
Clostebol (and it’s prohormone variant, Helladrol), Equipoise, and
blends like Omnadren and Sustanon.

And
finally, the third major
family of anabolic steroids, is 19-nor, most famously represented by
Deca-Durabolin (commonly known as just Deca, which is Nandrolone
Decanoate). Nandrolone, especially in the Decanoate form (a long acting
ester) is a wildly popular steroid with a very good ability to build
muscle, help heal injuries, and possessing few side effects.

Like
testosterone, nandrolone can convert to estrogen, but in principle it
does so in such a miniscule amount so as to make it unnoticeable to
most users. but this happens only under special circumstances and in
small amounts. It can also convert to a dihydro version, just as we see
with testosterone, but in this case, it’s converted to
Dihydronandrolone. Again, this is a relatively minor conversion, and
not noticeable to most users. And just as we see with the other two
families, the 19-nor group generally shares many of the same properties
with drugs it shares a familial bond with. Although I don’t consider
this family to be as versatile as testosterone per se, we find that
Deca can be used in both a cutting or bulking cycle, while other drugs
in the category include Trenbolone, Nilevar, and Nandrolone
Phenylpropionate – and are generally thought to be cutting drugs.

So
while none of this is particularly new information, we can see that
this old information is the stuff that makes up the foundation of
tomorrow’s hottest designer undetectable steroid, the next prohormone,
or the next trend in new-steroid-from the old (i.e. Masteron Enanthate,
Trenbolone Enanthate, etc..).